Facility Philosophy

Lakeside-Milam Recovery Centers is structured to treat addiction problems and to help male and female patients to develop personal growth. We believe alcoholism and other drug addictions are treatable, and that they not only harmfully affect the involved person, but the entire family and community as well. Further, we believe chemical dependency is a disease affecting the physical, spiritual, social, emotional, psychological, financial, and familial portions of the patient’s life.

Our aim is to provide a safe, structured and consistent environment in which the alcoholic or other drug addict individual is provided with an atmosphere of trust and care, as well as a variety of learning and therapeutic experiences. Through the program, emphasis is placed on identification and admission of the disease, methods of maintaining sobriety, and the establishment of new patterns of problem-solving and living.

By establishing bonds of trust and love and by gaining a feeling of self-worth, patients and the family are able to handle the realities of existence on a day-to-day basis. Coping and communication skills, coupled with an ongoing self-help program, are the replacements for the chemicals that before were so important in the patient’s life.

We recognize that patients have different biopsychosocial needs and enter treatment at different stages of illness in chemical dependency. This requires individualized treatment and a variety of levels of care provided in the least physically restrictive and most cost-effective manner.

Lakeside-Milam Recovery Centers. (800) 231-4303.